The 1984 season

Tropical Storm Isidore (1984)

Tropical Storm Isidore peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between September 25, 1984 and October 1, 1984, with a lowest pressure of 999 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Isidore, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1984 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
September 25, 1984 to October 1, 1984
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
999 mb (29.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.6
Fastest the center moved
24 kt (28 mph)
Identifier
AL151984

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Rainfall

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 560 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 8.90 inches (226 mm).

StationTotalPosition
SOUTHPORT 5 N8.90 in (226 mm)34.00N 78.02W
LOXAHATCHEE7.60 in (193 mm)26.68N 80.27W
LIVE OAK6.59 in (167 mm)30.28N 82.97W
JESUP 4 NE6.04 in (153 mm)31.65N 81.83W
USHER TOWER5.86 in (149 mm)29.42N 82.82W
JASPER 9 ESE5.67 in (144 mm)30.52N 82.95W
GLEN ST MARY NURSERIES5.50 in (140 mm)30.27N 82.18W
SAPELO ISLAND5.29 in (134 mm)31.40N 81.28W
STUART 1 N5.25 in (133 mm)27.20N 80.17W
JACKSONVILLE MUNICIPAL ARPT5.01 in (127 mm)30.50N 81.70W
JACKSONVILLE CECIL FLD NAS4.83 in (123 mm)30.22N 81.88W
HASTINGS ARC4.81 in (122 mm)29.75N 81.47W

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 25, 12:0023.4N 73.0W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Sep 25, 18:0023.9N 73.9W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Sep 26, 00:0024.3N 74.9W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 26, 06:0024.5N 76.0W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 26, 12:0024.7N 77.0W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0025.0N 77.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0025.4N 78.4W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0025.8N 79.1W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0026.4N 79.8W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0027.3N 80.5W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0027.8N 81.5W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0028.5N 82.3W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0029.5N 82.1W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0030.1N 81.9W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0030.7N 81.4W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0031.3N 80.5W45 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0032.2N 79.3W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0032.8N 77.8W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0033.6N 76.2W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0034.3N 74.4W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 12:0034.8N 72.5W40 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 18:0035.3N 70.4W40 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Oct 1, 00:0035.8N 67.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 06:0036.4N 65.0W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 12:0036.8N 62.1W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1984

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.